2/26/2017 8:01:27 PM
There were a few teams wrapping up their three game series on Sunday. The Canisius Golden Griffins continued to rack up a high amount of hits as they defeated the IPFW Mastadons by a score of 13-6. The Mastadons came out swinging, putting up five runs on six hits in the first inning. The Mastadons batted around the order that inning with almost half of their lineup providing an RBI. Dylan Wilbert, did the most damage with a two-run single. The Golden Griffins fought back and put up a run in the second and fourth and put up ten runs in the seventh. Sophomore William Krull showed some power with a solo blast in the fourth inning and senior Jake Lumley added onto the ten-run seventh inning with a two-run double. Krull went 3-4 on the day.
The NHIT Highlanders picked up a win today against the Chicago State. Tyler Stafflinger started the game for the Highlanders, throwing six innings and giving up two runs on three hits while striking out four. Bryan Habertstroh recorded his second save of the year, throwing 3 innings and giving up one run on three hits and striking out one batter. Michael Anastasia had the hot bat today for NJIT as he went 2-4, with a double and two RBI.
The Ohio Bobcats and SIU Edwardsville Cougars went into extra innings, with the Bobcats coming out on top winning 2-1 in the thirteenth inning thanks to a lead off double down left field line by Sophomore Rudy Rott, a sac bunt by Junior Michael Klein and a sac fly by junior Evan Bourn to bring in the go ahead run. Senior Jake Rudnicki threw four innings and allowed no hits and no runs while striking out 7. The righthanded pitcher located his fastball low in the zone effectively and also was able to generate swings and misses with his slider by throwing the pitch in the same slot as his fastball to produce early swings from the Cougar’s batters. Junior reliever Jake Roehn picked up the win and senior Matt Mikolajczak received the save.
There was a doubleheader between two NAIA schools, the Cleary Cougars and Goshen Maple Leafs, with the Cleary Cougars winning both games with a score of 4-3 and 11-0. In the first game, the Cougars put up 4 in the first and were able to hold off a fourth inning comeback attempt by the Maple Leafs in the who scored three in that inning, but failed to put up any more runs to win the ball game. Cleary’s Tyler Vaughn brought in two runs with a single in the first inning and recorded the save throwing two innings and allowing no runs while giving up three hits and striking out two. In the second game, The Cougars came out swinging putting up three runs in the first and second inning and never looked back. Senior Reid Beffrey had a two-run double to centerfield in the first and an RBI triple in the second. Senior Badih Jawad received the win for the Cleary Cougars.